{"product_id":"american-abyss-savagery-and-civilization-in-the-age-of-industry-hardcover","title":"American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel E. Bender\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization both dramatically altered everyday experiences and shaped debates about the effects of immigration, empire, and urbanization. In \u003ci\u003eAmerican Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of sources--eugenics theories, scientific studies of climate, socialist theory, and even popular novels about cavemen--to show how intellectuals and activists came to understand industrialization in racial and gendered terms as the product of evolution and as the highest expression of civilization.Their discussions, he notes, are echoed today by the use of such terms as the \"developed\" and \"developing\" worlds. American industry was contrasted with the supposed savagery and primitivism discovered in tropical colonies, but observers who made those claims worried that industrialization, by encouraging immigration, child and women's labor, and large families, was reversing natural selection. Factories appeared to favor the most unfit. There was a disturbing tendency for such expressions of fear to favor eugenicist \"remedies.\"Bender delves deeply into the culture and politics of the age of industry. Linking urban slum tourism and imperial science with immigrant better-baby contests and hoboes, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the complex interactions of turn-of-the-century ideas about race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Moreover, at a time when immigration again lies at the center of American economy and society, this book offers an alarming and pointed historical perspective on contemporary fears of immigrant laborers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel E. Bender is Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Urban History, University of Toronto. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47511052517554,"sku":"9780801445989","price":111.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/Y62iO3oQ0k9780801445989.webp?v=1779657637","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/american-abyss-savagery-and-civilization-in-the-age-of-industry-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}